from ConfigParser import ConfigParser from config import config import os def get_settings(): """ Try to read the settings from file into ConfigParser object. If the config file isn't found, initialize it. """ filename = os.path.join(config.app_dir, 'settings.conf') settings = ConfigParser() if os.path.isfile(filename): settings.read(filename) else: _init_settings(settings, filename) return settings def _init_settings(settings, filename): settings.add_section('ed_companion') settings.add_section('inara') settings.set('ed_companion', 'username', raw_input("Elite Username (email address): ")) settings.set('ed_companion', 'password', raw_input("Elite Password: ")) settings.set('inara', 'username', raw_input("Inara Username: ")) settings.set('inara', 'password', raw_input("Inara Password: ")) print "To change these settings later, edit " + filename with open(filename, 'wb') as f: settings.write(f)